Prof. Michael Ben-Or
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
TITLE:
Secure Multipary Quantum Computation
ABSTRACT:
Suppose we have n players who wish to jointly perform a quantum
computation, but some of them are faulty and are trying to learn
privileged information and/or sabotage the computation. How many
cheaters can we tolerate and still have a secure protocol? Secure
multiparty classical computation is possible with fewer than n/3
cheaters, or fewer than n/2 when a secure broadcast channel is
available. It turns out the same bounds hold in the quantum case. In
this talk I will sketch the construction, which owes a great deal to
the classical solutions, but requires a number of new components as
well.
This talk describes joint work with Crepeau, Gottesman, Hassidim, and
Smith.